how to get TeX, LaTex

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From: Richard Stevens
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1988 11:27

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I am in need of bringing up TeX and LaTeX on a vanilla 4.3 BSD VAX.
(We've never needed TeX before, being troff-users, but we've just
gotten the ISODE-4.0 release and their 800+ page manual is in LaTeX
format, so its time to bite the bullet.)  What's the easiest way to
do this ??

- We're connected to uunet, and I see a TeX release is there (22 Mb worth).
- I've also heard of a UNIX release tape from U. Washington.
- Would the TeX at uunet include LaTeX ??
- We have PostScript LaserWriters, so I assume we'd need the dvi2ps
	program also ??
- Is TeX still written in Pascal, and if so, can I assume the 4.3 BSD
	pascal compiler is adequate ??

Thanks for any leads.

	Richard Stevens
	Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
	   stevens@hsi.uu.net
           ... { uunet | yale } ! hsi ! stevens

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From: stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens)
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Subject: how to get TeX, LaTex
Keywords: Tex, LaTeX, dvi2ps
Message-ID: <166@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 11:27:48 GMT
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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